JUNE 1 – Luther Gales is a man who knows what he wants. “We’re both corrections officers on Rikers Island, and we met on the job in May 2005,” recalls Veronica Backman. “He was escorting inmates to the clinic and I was working the clinic that day, so as soon as he spotted me he said, ‘You’re going to be my wife,’ ” she says, laughing. The pair began dating, and Gales ultimately proposed last June at a park in Harlem. The couple wed at city hall and celebrated with a family dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Hoboken, N.J. “I’m really looking forward to all of the little things,” says the bride. “Luther’s such a clown, and I know there’s never going to be a dull moment.”